Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Athletics - Mixed 4 x 400m Relay - Round 1- OLS - Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - July 30, 2021. Iga Baumgart-Witan of Poland, Junelle Bromfield of Jamaica and Zoey Clark of Britain in action during Heat 2 REUTERS/Hannah Mckay
TOKYO (Reuters) - The mixed 4x400m relay made its Olympic debut in Tokyo amid controversy on the opening day of the athletics programme on Friday with Poland topping the time sheets in the heats after the United States team were disqualified.
The discipline, featuring teams of two men and two women competing against each other in any order they choose, would have been a crowd favourite with its unique and unpredictable format.
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